Since Marcel Mauss published his foundational essay The Gift in 1925, many anthropologists and specialists of internatio
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Table of contents :
Cover
Half-title page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
1 The History of a Political Idea: Gifts, Trusts, Reparations, and Other Fetishes of International Solidarity
2 The Cast: Marcel Mauss and His Legacy in the French Fields of Power
3 The Gift and European Solidarity: Marcel Mauss and the Politics of Reparation in Interwar Europe
4 The Gift as Colonial Ideology: Marcel Mauss and French Colonial Policy before and after the Great War
5 Marcel Mauss’s Disciples in Algeria: The Anthropology of the Gift and the Shock of Decolonization
6 Decolonizing The Gift: Nationalization and Sovereign Debt Cancellation in North–South Relations
7 International Solidarity and Gift Exchange in the Eurozone
Notes
Bibliography
Index